In his new alphabet of creatures, Alphabhetto, Tampa artist Josh Pearson ingeniously uses humor and urban street rhymes to explore how limited we can be in our perceptions of everyday things. Akin to the A-B-C books we read to children, the book shows us a zebra with parking meters for legs, a hippo with a mouth outstretched by a shopping cart and other cool creature oddities. myspace.com/joshuatpearsonart, alphabhetto.com.
This article appears in Sep 22-28, 2011.